He was on Andrew Marr attacking the Scottish Government SNP for not nationalising the ScotRail franchise.

When the Railways Act 1993 explicitly makes this illegal. The Scottish Parliament did not have those powers. It was impossible. He was attacking the Scottish Government SNP for something they were unable to do even if they wanted to.

“[The SNP] were behind privatisation of ScotRail.”

-Corbyn.

The Scots Parliament didn’t even exist at the time for the SNP to legislate for it, which again, they couldn't do because it's illegal.

Westminster controlled can because it is a sovereign entity and also because the operators were unable to fulfill the contract. The Scottish Parliament is not soverign and the situations were different.

The claim that the SNP are responsible for the continued operation of the ScotRail franchise by a private firm has been repeated numerous times by Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, activist group Momentum and other senior Labour figures.
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After Scottish devolution in 1999, the Scottish Government was handed a measure of power over transport, however railways remained largely under UK government control until the Railways Act 2005. This gave Scotland power to “manage and monitor the performance of ScotRail services” and the “sole responsibility for securing future ScotRail franchises”.

Crucially, the 2005 act did not give Scottish ministers the power to include a public sector bid for the ScotRail franchise. This ability was only devolved in the Scotland Act 2016, which handed Scotland a host of new powers in response to the Scottish Independence referendum in 2014.

I think Labour would do very well in Scotland if they actually worked with the snp on shared interest matters. For me a large damaging part is their (slab) combativeness. Would Scotland even need independence if Labour held Westminster? How much of labour and snp or independence support is more an anti-tory support?

This poll uses a subsample for Scotland which always give incorrect results. The poll released yesterday for Scotland has SNP on 40%. Your electoral calculus gives Labour far too much electrical gains from the SNP to be accurate.

He already put up around 8 million this transfer window alone. Then there are the improvements to the stadium, the wage increases, and the other transfer windows. 20 million isn't a lot in the grand scheme of things, gets used up quickly. Running a football club is a lot more than just buying players and adding up the costs from that.

The only one of that type of program I'd like to see made in Scotland is Have I got News for You.

Every single time any story comes up that mentions Scotland in any way, I make a bet with myself of whether the panel/host's joke is going to be Alcoholism, diet or violence.

Film it in Scotland and perhaps they'd find better jokes.

Edit: As if to prove the poing, just now catching up on The News Quiz podcast...
"I don't think the UK Police would ever go into Glasgow and go and try to drag an old lady by her hair kicking and screaming because she would, you know, cut them..."

All new IT systems have teething problems and take time to transition. That doesn't mean you should never try to make progress. If everyone agrees that universal credit is a good policy in principle, then it is right to attempt to implement it, even if the implementation takes a few years of relative chaos.

Anderson is suing each defendant for Battery, Assault, Willful Misconduct, Negligence, Gross Negligence, Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress and Negligent Infliction of Emotional Distress, claiming that he was not been able to work for six months due to the injuries and has faced medical bills in excess of $150,000.

I maybe a 'leftard' and a belle and sebastian fan (somehow warranting of an ad hominem?), but i'm also not a student. Graduated from university a decade ago. I hope you do well when you go to the big school though.

EDIT: Downvoted of course but go do your homework, just because you don't like the facts doesn't mean they are not true. SNP won 46% of the constituency vote and 41% of the regional, meaning most people in Scotland did not vote for the SNP.

As if to prove that not only is she above petty party politics but also that she doesn’t bear grudges, the Queen has made Ian Blackford, the leader of the SNP in the House of Commons, one of her most senior advisers only 24 hours after his party voted that the public should stop paying her wages.

Is she above it or couldn't the appointment easily be stopped (in such a short period of time).

because she's a lonely middle aged woman, and the whole trajectory of her life is built on a foundation of failed marriages she can't stop dwelling on. Of course she looks happy. This is a short window into her life. Happy people don't usually find themselves in circumstances that lead to a brutal divorce, much less two.

She seems like a confident, strong woman bursting with personality. Whilst it's sad that the circumstances lead her to be where she is, she seems quite content with her life and making lemonade out of lemons.